"poet Seamus Heaney, raised the money and commissioned Hambling. Her design features Wilde's bronze head rising from a green granite sarcophagus which also serves as a bench; Wilde's hand was holding a cigarette. The work is inscribed with a quotation from his play ""Lady Windermere's Fan"": ""We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars"". Some critics were visceral in their loathing of the work, but supporters said it was well-loved by the public. The chief art critic of ""The Independent"", wrote that ultimately the sculpture was not about Wilde or the viewing public,"
"Lady Windermere's Fan Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts"
"in his trench. Sharon Olds's poem ""Sleekit Cowrin also references this poem. In Douglas Adams's ""Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"" series, mice are the physical protrusions into our dimension of a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who commissioned construction of the Earth to find the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When their plans go wrong they lament that ""the best laid plans of mice"" don't always work out. The Monty Python sketch 'Word Association' references the first line of the poem, and replaces the simple word ""We"" with ""Wee sleekit cowerin' timorous beastie"". Tom"
"Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film) Lady Windermere's Fan is a 1925 American silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" which was first played in America that year by Julia Arthur as Lady Windermere and Maurice Barrymore as Lord Darlington. The film is being preserved by several archives. It was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s and shown on television. In London, Lady Margaret Windermere is busy discouraging Lord Darlington's flirting, while her husband receives a letter from Edith Erlynne, ""a complete stranger,"" asking to meet"
"in the flood? Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he Should leave the helm and, like a fearful lad, With tearful eyes add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which hath too much, Whiles in his moan the ship splits on the rock Which industry and courage might have saved? Ah what a shame, ah what a fault were this. Say Warwick was our anchor, what of that? And Montague our topmast, what of him? Our slaughtered friends the tackles, what of these? Why, is not Oxford here another anchor? And Somerset another goodly"
"she no longer wants to marry him. He is flabbergasted, but after thinking it over, follows her into her taxi. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $324,000 domestically and $74,000 foreign. The film is available on DVD in the ""More Treasures from American Film Archives"" collection. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film) Lady Windermere's Fan is a 1925 American silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" which was first played in America that year by Julia Arthur as Lady Windermere and Maurice Barrymore as Lord Darlington. The film is"
"the classic British music hall song of that period My Old Man, and as a character in Oscar Wilde's children's story ""The Devoted Friend""; Wilde also mentions how the call of the linnet awakens ""The Selfish Giant"" to the one tree where it is springtime in his garden. William Butler Yeats evokes the image of the common linnet in ""The Lake Isle of Innisfree"" (1890) in line 8: ""And evening full of the linnet's wings."" In the novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" by Charles Dickens, the heroine Nell keeps ""only a poor linnet"" in a cage, which she leaves for"
"would have her as a mother. Hester assures her that she would. Gerald sees his father's glove on the floor, and when he asks who has visited, Mrs. Arbuthnot simply replies, ""A man of no importance."" Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager of London's Haymarket Theatre, asked Oscar Wilde to write him a play following the success of Wilde's ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" at the St. James Theatre. Wilde was initially quite reluctant since the character Tree would take was not the sort of part he associated with the actor: Wilde went so far as to describe Lord Illingworth as himself. This appears"
"will come to take all of them to a new haven, Rachel's answer is: ""In the next wind. If not tonight, then tomorrow"". Babette repeats: ""In the next wind"", as the Nightbreed look expectantly at the couple, who are far away in the fields. It is then shown that Boone/Cabal and Lori are now part of their people's prophecy, and they are seen together as one of the paintings on the wall that relates the Nightbreed's history. Clive Barker always loved monsters and felt that ""there's a corner of all of us that envies their powers and would love to"
"counts as a separate setting, but since the truth is that the travellers do not leave the mansion gardens, the Unity of Place is not violated. The title refers to Kate's ruse of pretending to be a barmaid to reach her goal. It originates in the poetry of Dryden, which Goldsmith may have seen misquoted by Lord Chesterfield. In Chesterfield's version, the lines in question read: ""The prostrate lover, when he lowest lies, But stoops to conquer, and but kneels to rise."" Goldsmith's friend and contemporary, Samuel Johnson greatly admired the play. James Boswell quoted him as saying, ""I know"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"
"the Southern Highlands of NSW. He was married to actress Caroline Brazier and has two grown-up daughters Geoff Morrell (actor) Geoff Morrell (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian-born film, television and theatre actor. Morrell began his career in theatre acting, becoming a founding member of the Theatre South organisation. In 1983, he briefly moved to England, featuring in a number of productions there. In 1985, he branched into film acting, with a minor role in a telemovie version of Oscar Wilde's ""Lady Windermere's Fan"". Over the next few years, he moved between film and theatre, starring in productions such"
"rail line to Southport. As the delayed train waited for the signals to change, one of the travellers remarked ""where the b... hell are we?"" and the reply became the basis for the immortal joke about Wigan's Pier. George Formby, Sr. perpetuated the joke around the turn of the century in the music halls in Wigan, adding that when he passed the Pier he noticed the tide was in (referring to the constant flooding in the low-lying area). George died in February 1921, and with the demise of the collieries in the area, the gantry had long passed out of"
"James's, Wilde was targeting a fashionable, upper-middle class audience and Wilde maps out the geography of their world, Grosvenor Square, Curzon Street, the park, with precision. Peter Raby has also highlighted ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" as a good example of Wilde's most successful dramatic technique: the juxtaposition of the comic and the serious. ""Once the absurd and the patently false have been established, the serious emotions and ideas which are explored have been given a setting which prevents them from ever becoming too serious"". Scholar Paul Fortunato describes Oscar Wilde as a modernist, who used his modern aesthetics so as to"
"poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after. She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's ""A Room of One's Own"": ""All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the"
"States. Oscar lectured throughout the year 1882, so this attribute to Mrs. Leslie can't possibly be accurate. On his return to London, early in 1892, Willie found that Oscar was the toast of the town for his successful play ""Lady Windermere's Fan"". It is believed that Willie wrote the ambivalent review of the play that was published unsigned in ""Vanity Fair"" on 27 February 1892 (he had previously been a drama critic for the magazine). The reviewer, whoever he really was, wrote that ""The play was ""brilliantly unoriginal,"" but the dialogue was ""uniformly bright, graceful and flowing"". He concluded that"
"before they can leave, Lord Windermere arrives. The ladies conceal themselves, but Lord Windermere discovers the fan that he has recently given his wife as a birthday present and demands to know if Lord Darlington has Lady Windermere in his rooms. To prevent the exposure of Lady Windermere, Mrs Erlynne enters, saying that it is she who is under Lord Darlington's roof and must have picked up Lady Windermere's fan by mistake. Lady Windermere's reputation is saved, but Mrs Erlynne's is compromised. Fortunately, her admirer, Lord Augustus Lorton, is convinced of her honour and proposes marriage. The Windermeres are reconciled,"
"comedy of humours, made fun of affected wit and acquired follies of the time. The masterpieces of the genre were the plays of William Wycherley (""The Country Wife"", 1675) and William Congreve (""The Way of the World"", 1700). In the late 18th century Oliver Goldsmith (""She Stoops to Conquer"", 1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (""The Rivals"", 1775; ""The School for Scandal"", 1777) revived the form. The tradition of elaborate, artificial plotting and epigrammatic dialogue was carried on by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" (1892) and ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" (1895). In the 20th century, the"
"direct him into the realm of mass culture. Wilde's huge popularity as a playwright began with his production of ""Lady Windermere's Fan"", his recherché attitude and personal aesthetics reflected in his writing. Fortunato elaborates on the facets of his aestheticism—an aestheticism that distorts and lies on the surface, rejects any notion of an authentic self, and centres on the female aesthete and woman of fashion. As he describes, understanding Wilde as a modernist through his writing of ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" can help us understand the disparity between mass culture and high society. Wilde bridges this by theorising his modern aesthetics"
"providing any in-depth response, stating only: ""On the whole, however, with the exception of the above, and other innocent odes of the same cast, we think these volumes display a genius worthy of higher pursuits, and regret that Mr. W. confines his muse to such trifling subjects... Many, with inferior abilities, have acquired a loftier seat on Parnassus, merely by attempting strains in which Mr. W. is more qualified to excel."" The poem was received negatively but for a different reason from Wordsworth's and Coleridge's friend Robert Southey, also a Romantic poet. Southey, in an 8 December 1807 letter to"
"are me"" (C chord) ""and we are all toge..."" (D chord) ""...ther"" (A chord). Verse 2, however, involves a VI–VII–I Aeolian ascent: ""waiting"" (F chord) ""for the van"" (G chord) ""to come"" (A chord). The chorus uses a III–IV–V pattern: ""I am the eggman (C chord) ""they are the eggmen (D chord). ""I am the walrus (E chord), ""goo goo g'joob"" hanging as an imperfect cadence until resolved with the I (A chord) on ""Mr. City Policeman"". At the line """"Sitting"" in an English garden"" the D melody note (as in the instrumental introduction) establishes a Lydian mode (sharp 4th"
"setting of many of his books. He created and voiced the hardboiled detective parody character Guy Noir on his radio show. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright known for his biting wit. Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ""Three Men in a Boat"". P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) was a satirical novelist, best known for his ""Wilt"" series, as well as ""Porterhouse Blue"" and "" Blott on the Landscape"". Alan Coren (1938–2007) could"
"'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior, he nearly always has to be content with dirty looks and the sharp, passionate bark"". In chapter 5, Bertie reacts strongly when he hears that Sir Watkyn Bassett wants to hire Jeeves: ""I reeled, and might have fallen, had I not been sitting at the time"". This is a variation on a quote from Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"", describing Arthur after he stakes Lucy in her grave: ""The hammer fell from Arthur's hand. He reeled and would have fallen had we not caught him"". Wodehouse often has Bertie referring to"
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was"
"sharp practice in his particular profession, followed by the general chorus ""And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,/ We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE."" Adeline Dutton Train Whitney likewise applied the nursery rhyme to opportunism in American society in ""Mother Goose for grown folks: a Christmas reading"" (New York 1860). The privileged little boy grows up to become ""John, Esquire"" and goes in search of richer plums, where he is joined in his quest by ""female Horners"". John Bellenden Ker Gawler charged the mediaeval legal profession with similar interested motives in his ""Essay on"
"used as a humorous colloquialism meaning ""anyone and everyone"". The surname is spelt as ""Cobleigh"" in some references. The song was published by Sabine Baring-Gould in the book ""Songs and Ballads of the West"" (1889–91) (referring to the West Country in England), though it also exists in variant forms. The title is spelt ""Widdecombe Fair"" in the original publication, though ""Widecombe"" is now the standard spelling of the town Widecombe-in-the-Moor. The ghostly 'Grey Mare' of the song may in fact refer to a lost folk custom similar to the Mari Lwyd or Hobby Horse of Welsh and Cornish tradition. Local"
"Lament for the Theft of a Pease Bannock; Impromptu – Addressed to Mr R----- P-----, Slater, Kelso; The Contrast; A New Year's Hymn; Epitaph on a Joiner; Epitaph on an Old Maid – Impromptu; Epigram Written on a Dismally Wet day at Spittal; Lines Addressed to the Author on Reading The Reiver Time – by Mrs A----- S-----, Cape of Good Hope; SONGS - Oban (Air: The Birks o' Aberfeldy); Yon Bright Twinkling Star (Air: The Araby Maid); Mary Lyle; I Will Love Thee, Dearest Amy; Our Ain Folk (Air: Scots Wha Ha'e); Willie Is Gane (Air: My Nannie's Awa);"
"nothing else can explain the strange refrains. Bellamy became excited when the line in ""Dutch in the Medway"" ""our ships in every harbour..."" reminded him of the line in the song ""Cupid's Garden"" ""Twas down in Portsmouth Harbour..."". This observation suggested the tune for the Kipling poem and made him wonder whether Kipling had actually composed to that tune, it being a common folk song in the 19th century and certainly part of the repertoire of the remarkable Copper family of Sussex who had lived in Rottingdean when Kipling was also living there. (A local man called Copper appears briefly"
"The Fan (1949 film) The Fan is a 1949 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Dorothy Parker, Walter Reisch, and Ross Evans is based on the 1892 play ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" by Oscar Wilde. The play had been filmed several times before, with a 1916 silent film, a later adaptation by Ernst Lubitsch in 1925 as well as versions in Spanish and Chinese. The film opens in a post-World War II London auction house, where an elderly woman is trying to acquire an attractive fan she claims was once hers. A flashback to the Victorian era"
"known as Windermere. Oxenholme's railway station is now known as 'Oxenholme Lake District' because of the branch line. There was opposition to the proposals from those who were against what they saw as destruction of the Lake District landscape. Those opposing included the poet William Wordsworth. His letters to the editor of the ""Morning Post"" are reproduced in ""The Illustrated Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes"", P. Bicknell, Ed. (Congdon and Weed, New York, 1984), pp. 186–198. His reactions to the technological and ""picturesque"" incursions of man on his beloved, wild landscape most famously include the following sonnet: On the opening"
"their green heads on the blue of the skies; And ours are the forests unwasted, unshorn, Save where the wild path of the tempest is torn. And though savage and wild be this climate of ours, And brief be our season of fruits and of flowers, Far dearer the blast round our mountains which raves, Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over slaves! Hurrah for Vermont! For the land which we till Must have sons to defend her from valley and hill; Leave the harvest to rot on the fields where it grows, And the reaping of wheat for"
"""a fav'rite has no friend"", ""[k]now one false step is ne'er retrieved"" and ""nor all that glisters, gold"". (Walpole later displayed the fatal china vase (the tub) on a pedestal at his house in Strawberry Hill.) Gray's surviving letters also show his sharp observation and playful sense of humour. He is well known for his phrase, ""where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."" The phrase, from """", is possibly one of the most misconstrued phrases in English literature. Gray is not promoting ignorance, but is reflecting with nostalgia on a time when he was allowed to be ignorant,"
"until 1896 in Paris, during Wilde's later incarceration. Wilde, who had first set out to irritate Victorian society with his dress and talking points, then outrage it with ""Dorian Gray"", his novel of vice hidden beneath art, finally found a way to critique society on its own terms. ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" was first performed on 20 February 1892 at St James's Theatre, packed with the cream of society. On the surface a witty comedy, there is subtle subversion underneath: ""it concludes with collusive concealment rather than collective disclosure"". The audience, like Lady Windermere, are forced to soften harsh social codes"